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In the same week PC have their articles on cool 70s cars, including the Allegro (see Gonzo's gallery), what's this in their sister publication?
I don't know if anyone ever reads my descriptions, but I write them anyway, so there!!
Was out today (August 20th 2021) on a forced vacation day, from 9:30AM til' almost 4PM. 80F today but it felt like 100F. This is a very active line and I probably flicked 20 freights today. 750+ flicks. By the time I get rid of a few duplicates, and bad ones, I'm guessing it'll be about 700 +/-. 700 to straighten, fix any color issues, upload, and also ID the writers. It's lots of time and as you can imagine, it's a lot of work, but so far it's been fun. I'm trying to not rush myself to post before I'm ready. I already have the flicks, and they're timeless. So getting them posted ASAP!!!!!! is not really my concern. Duh..
Had an interesting interaction with a guy while out there. Guy with backpack had walked back and forth across the tracks a few times. The lat time I saw him he was on the other side of a set, about 100 yards away. Next thing you know he's coming closer..... Closer..... And I'm like WTF? I'm way out here minding my own business. He walks within' like 10 ft. of me and I say "How ya' doin'?" he says something, and then says "Trains?" and I say "Yep." and he says "Oh.." and walks away. I think he was feelin' me out, as there's a small population of people who's homes are shall I say, mobile. I've talked to a few of them, and have never had a bad interaction, I just don't like people walkin' up on me when I'm trying to get away from the rest of the world out by the tracks. I go out there to get away from people, not to interact.
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I follow some other amazing photographers on flickr, but for this I will talk about the ones who flick the freights. There are a few that I really love. Some it's because of the great locations they shoot at, and others it's the amazing little details they manage to capture. For me (right now) I don't have the luxury of walking the lines and seeing pieces static. 99.999% of my flicks the freight is rolling by at 10-50 mph and sometimes I don't really even know what I have until I get home, dump the memory cards and go through the photos. Because of this, most of my flicks are just straight on shots and documenting what I saw and where. I saw this freight here, on this date, here's what was on it, and i captured it. Buffed or scraped next week, well I have it on "film" for future generations (sounds corny, I know). There are times when a freight will stop in-front of me, and I'll walk up and get some shots of monikers, but it's rare.
Obviously in any area there are sidings where freights park for extended periods, I know a few spots, but as I get older, and older, do I really want to leave my car parked on the side of the road and walk 2 miles to capture some little details I might normally miss? I'd love to, but it's just not practical for me at this time, any many other people do it better than I could. Retirement is getting closer every day, maybe then, when my weekdays are free. :-)
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During the Covid lockdown, I was working from home, and I was getting out benching like 2 & 3 times a month. Back at work, I'm lucky to have the energy to get out once a month. Every time I do manage to get out, I come home and my batteries feel re-charged. It's been so f-ing hot here in SoCal though, I can't wait for cooler weather and some clouds in the sky.
As always, thanks to the writers!
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Duologues On Kawara: David Batchelor and Briony Fer
Tuesday, March 24, 2015
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
5th Ave at 89th Street
New York City
Conceived by exhibition curator Jeffrey Weiss, this dynamic series of paired talks positioned On Kawara within an interdisciplinary world context. Diverse engagements with the artist's work included themes of everyday life, globalism, politics, language, travel, and pictorial abstraction. Artist David Batchelor and art historian Briony Fer were brought together to consider Kawara’s Today series of Date Paintings through the lenses of the practical, esthetic, and conceptual history of color in a context of modern and post-modern pictorial abstraction.
Photo: Chad Heird
Presented in conjunction with On Kawara–Silence on view February 6–May 3, 2015.
© Elizabeth Ralph
Thursday 20 August 2009
Practical Truths includes the work of Jacob Cartwright & Nick Jordan, Jenna Collins, G. Leddington, Olivia Plender and Ben Rivers whose work is represented in film, sculpture and photography. The show explores issues around methods of documentation that attempt to grasp the dichotomy of the individual and the universal revealing various truths about human culture. The works in Practical Truths often use narratives that focus on individuals or communities that sit uncomfortably with the demands of conventional living and thereby convey a timeless sentiment that is neither defined within the present-day nor within a specific historic decade.
Practical Nursing students participated in the PN Pinning Ceremony on Wednesday, July 19, in the Crist Student Center at the Main Campus in Galesburg. The annual event for recent graduates is a celebration of the culmination of their efforts from their time in the program and includes the opportunity for family members and loved ones to participate in the ceremony.
Thank you to all who attended our Learning and Teaching conference on Monday, 9 January 2012.
The University of Sheffield Learning & Teaching conference is a space to discuss good learning and teaching practice. The conference this year was designed to help you in this changing educational environment: an exciting variety of sessions where 90 colleagues presented practical teaching workshops, panels on teaching approaches to plenaries where senior academics discuss how strategy has been developed to deliver an improved student experience.
Image from 'A practical Treatise on Metallurgy, adapted from the last German edition of Professor K.'s Metallurgy, by W. Crookes and E. Röhrig ... Illustrated, etc', 001953752
Author: KERL, Bruno.
Volume: 01
Page: 669
Year: 1868
Place: London
Publisher:
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© Elizabeth Ralph
Thursday 20 August 2009
Practical Truths includes the work of Jacob Cartwright & Nick Jordan, Jenna Collins, G. Leddington, Olivia Plender and Ben Rivers whose work is represented in film, sculpture and photography. The show explores issues around methods of documentation that attempt to grasp the dichotomy of the individual and the universal revealing various truths about human culture. The works in Practical Truths often use narratives that focus on individuals or communities that sit uncomfortably with the demands of conventional living and thereby convey a timeless sentiment that is neither defined within the present-day nor within a specific historic decade.
In Joel Dewberry & Amy Butler French Wallpaper
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